Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Darling buds

Anyone could have
told you from the start that a wide-ranging reduction in finicky law enforcement
and official toleration and the staunch and fearless encouragement of a myriad of overseas customs would
encourage ever-greater personal morality
and inter-racial
tolerance, growing like mighty oaks in England's capital.

But despite it all;
despite the hatemongers and nay-sayers and Little Englanders the whole effort
has proved completely worthwhile if a former police officer who brought his
family out of war-torn Sierra Leone can feel right at home in London.

And just look at
that vibrant and diverse local life, employing the English language in our
language’s ancient heartland and bringing a fresh new music to our native
tongue:

A witness saw the defendant strike
Julie’s collarbone without much effect and then plunge the comb into her skull.